I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.
‐‐ Yusef Komunyakaa
I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of 'KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.' The minute I saw Gene and Paul... it was all over. I knew that's what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Steven Adler
I originally wanted to stay in Chicago as long as I could. I love Chicago. I don't love L.A. I don't want to leave Chicago.
‐‐ Allison Tolman
I originally welcomed the mobile phone, as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson
I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling
I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.
‐‐ Kathy Reichs
I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.
‐‐ Andy Weir
I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.
‐‐ Tom Bodett
I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
‐‐ Brad Pitt
I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
‐‐ Harold Pinter
I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.
‐‐ Lev Grossman
I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that... but I've never been very good at... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion.
‐‐ Rik Mayall
I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?
‐‐ Jesse Kellerman
I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.
‐‐ Peggy Noonan
I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby
I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys who look after money, they're the ones who get the money.
‐‐ Robert Crumb
I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.
‐‐ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be.
‐‐ Jeff Abbott
I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
‐‐ Felice Picano
I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.
‐‐ John Williams
I over-think stuff a lot.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas
I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking to a boy, I'll overanalyze a text message he sent. And I have to think to myself, 'Just chill out. Some guy sent me a text message. That's all. Don't read something into it that's not there. Just be glad he sent you a text message!'
‐‐ Lucy Hale
I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.
‐‐ Thalia
I overcame size with mechanics.
‐‐ Edwin Moses
I overdramatize.
‐‐ Katherine Heigl
I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.
‐‐ Randeep Hooda
I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey
I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outcomes. But you can't. That's what is nice about being an actor, that you work really hard and it pays off. But at the end of the day, for it to be any good, you have to let go. I'd like to be better at this in life.
‐‐ Bertie Carvel
I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
‐‐ Elena Kagan
I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen
I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books until I got there.
‐‐ Billy Al Bengston
I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
‐‐ Owen Hart
I owe a lot to my parents.
‐‐ Maria Sharapova
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
‐‐ Greg Norman
I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.
‐‐ Kenan Thompson
I owe absolutely everything to HBO.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke
I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.
‐‐ Allen Iverson
I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.
‐‐ Elia Kazan
I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.
‐‐ Chuck Connors
I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
‐‐ Pete Rose
I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.
‐‐ Christy Mathewson
I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.
‐‐ Jason Bateman
I owe everything to my mom. She definitely got me to where I'm at today. Without her I wouldn't be able to do the things that I do. She and I are very close.
‐‐ David Lambert
I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.
‐‐ Dave Grohl
I owe everything to the army.
‐‐ Norman Wisdom
I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
‐‐ Robert Plant
I owe it all to Jesus.
‐‐ Aaron Neville
I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.
‐‐ John Belushi